Re: Unix command in PHP

At 04:22 PM 23/11/2000, Teodor Cimpoesu wrote:

Hi Nicolas! On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Nicolas Windpassinger - Sun wrote: hello all, does any body know how to do a UNIX command in a PHP script like:

usr/ccs/bin/sccs prs -d     ???

see system() and exec() function in the manual.

I have a bit of a question about this. I have used both these commands to execute a unix command/program and have run into a problem. Im trying to launch the app minicom with a few flags to get minicom to run using a script file. From the command line, the command works perfectly and it executes the script and exits the prog like a charm. But when I launch it from a PHP script, because the program physically outputs in a structured screen manner, it gets itself into a massive loop, starts chewing up CPU cycles going right up to 99% until I kill the app. Has anyone else had any experience with launching programs like Minicom so that it can run without getting itself caught up in a loop ? Chris --

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